Features
Timely, in-depth profiles, studio visits, reviews, essays, films, interviews, and oral history excerpts that delve deeply into the lives and work of artists with macular degeneration.
V&AP Benefit Exhibition Artworks on View at the Lighthouse Guild
We wrote accessible descriptions for the artworks on view. It made us love the works even more.
Read MoreV&AP Benefit Exhibition to Raise Funds for AMDF and Artists with Vision Loss
Work is available to purchase via our online benefit exhibition site through December 31, 2024.
Read MoreFreedom from Specificity
This essay by Alice Mattison is from the catalog that accompanies our benefit exhibition, which remains on view at our online benefit […]
Read MoreRobert Andrew Parker
Robert Andrew Parker, Artist of the Mystical and Actual, Has Died
In our short film from 2017, which was shot when the artist was in his mid-eighties, Parker talks about his life.
Read MoreManet / Degas
An exhibition, now at the Met, about a complex friendship that ends (sort of) with Manet’s death and Degas’s blindness
Read MoreLennart Anderson
From the Archives: How Lennart Anderson Made a Late Masterpiece
When Lennart Anderson's vision declined, he adapted his painting methods and created a new body of masterful work, starting with "Lion Mask."
Read MoreRenewal and Possibility
As we consider this upcoming year, we turn to the inspiring words and works of artists who have adapted to vision loss.
Read MoreAgnès Varda
Faces Places and Agnès Varda’s Radical Generosity
On Faces Places' 5th anniversary, a look at how Varda allowed her vision loss to shape the film and make it great.
Read MoreSerge Hollerbach
Watch Our Newest Film: “Serge Hollerbach: A Russian Painter in New York”
Our award-winning documentary is now available to stream.
Read MoreRobert Birmelin: Weaving a World of Reality and Dream
Several works spanning Robert Birmelin's career are now on display at the Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia.
Read MoreGeorgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
A current exhibition of photographs taken by Georgia O’Keeffe deepens our understanding of the artist’s late work.
Read MoreDoris Salcedo
Breaking Radically with Indifference
On Doris Salcedo's artwork and her moving and profound response to political violence.
Read MoreWays of Seeing: An Interview with Writer Alice Mattison
An interview with writer Alice Mattison about how vision loss has changed her writing, teaching, and appreciation of art.
Read MoreAmazing Women Artists with Macular Degeneration
The women artists we've profiled at the V&AP embody the theme of 2022 Women's History Month: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope
Read MoreGeorgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe in Paris
O'Keeffe's planetary perspective shines through at the Centre Pompidou's retrospective of her work, a cosmos outside human presence.
Read MoreFall Book Roundup
Books for reading and gifting this fall, including exhibition catalogs and memoirs about vision loss.
Read MoreLennart Anderson
Lennart Anderson’s Generative Doubt
The New York Studio School hosts a Lennart Anderson retrospective.
Read MoreAgnès Varda’s Boundless Creative Vision
Agnès Varda defied expectations when she made her first film in 1955. She was still breaking boundaries more than 50 years later.
Read MoreAgnès Varda’s Third Life as a Visual Artist
We interview Rosalie Varda, who helped her mother continue creating in the last phase of her career.
Read MoreDispatches from the Pandemic: Art and Artists that Made 2020 Better
The work of Virginia Knepper Doyle, Tim Prentice, Irving Guyer, Edgar Degas, and Hedda Sterne enriched a difficult year.
Read MoreErika Marie York
Strong Shapes, Vivid Lines, Big Color
An interview with Erika Marie York, 30, who has had Stargardt disease, a juvenile form of macular degeneration, since childhood.
Read MoreSerge Hollerbach
Digitized Slides Reveal 70 Years of Cityscapes
The Russian émigré artist Serge Hollerbach has spent seven decades drawing and painting his Upper West Side neighborhood—most recently, from memory.
Read MoreTim Prentice
Kinetic Sculptor Says “Wind Is the Ultimate Artist”
An interview with kinetic sculptor Tim Prentice on the occasion of a recent exhibit at the Cornwall Library in Connecticut.
Read MoreMilford Zornes
“Demand to See:” A Painter on His Vision Loss
In writing about his vision loss, Milford Zornes wanted to impart hope. He did so by acknowledging the pain of loss.
Read MoreAndrea Torrice
The Gestalt of Seeing
An interview with Andrea Torrice about building a successful filmmaking career after developing early onset macular degeneration as a young woman.
Read MoreLessons in Creativity from Artists with Macular Degeneration
Eight artists from one generation and how they continued making art after vision loss due to macular degeneration.
Read MoreHaunted: Images of Blindness Plague Artists with Vision Loss
Western art—and artists—are haunted by negative representations of blindness.
Read MoreDahlov Ipcar
Dahlov Ipcar’s Enchanted World
We look back at this artist’s singular life and work on the first anniversary of her passing.
Read MoreHedda Sterne’s Recommended Books
Hedda Sterne was a passionate reader. We offer her refreshingly timeless book recommendations as captured in her correspondence with a friend.
Read MoreWolf Kahn at the Brattleboro Museum: The Surface & What Lies Beneath
This exhibition of Wolf Kahn's post-macular paintings reveals the artist's greatest strengths.
Read MoreDoris Salcedo
Art Inhabits the Terrain of the Paradoxical
On the occasion of her exhibition at Harvard Art Museums, an interview with Doris Salcedo on vision loss and artmaking.
Read MoreRobert Andrew Parker
At 90 Years, a Life of Talent, Luck, Music, & Play
On the occasion of Parker's 95th birthday, a celebration of his work from our archives.
Read MoreSerge Hollerbach
“There Is Such a Thing as Instinct in a Painter”
In this excerpt from our oral history, Serge Hollerbach talks about making contact with reality through art.
Read MoreJenny Oldknow
Something Intangible, Something Shared
An interview with this young, British artist about how she's adapting to her new view of the world.
Read MoreRobert Hamilton
The Last Free Show On Earth
Robert Hamilton passed away 10 years ago, but his widow, Nancy Hamilton, continues the tradition of exhibiting his work every summer.
Read MoreThomas Sgouros
Painting as Poetry
A memorial exhibition at RISD highlights Thomas Sgouros's poetic vision and the dramatic paintings he created after losing his vision.
Read MoreGeorge Wardlaw
Folding Old Work into the New
In this oral history excerpt, Wardlaw discusses the spirit and spirituality, the past and the present, starting and finishing, and more.
Read MoreOliver Sacks: Insights on Vision and Blindness
On the occasion of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we reflect on his writings about the human eye, perception, and his own vision loss.
Read MoreDahlov Ipcar
The Prismatic Dimension
As Ipcar's star rises, her vision has declined. Her recent work is unusually simple—and powerful in new ways
Read MoreDavid Levine
Rendering the Essence
When, due to macular degeneration, Levine could no longer create the caricatures for which he was renowned, he continued his life-long exploration […]
Read MoreLennart Anderson
“Seeing with Light:” A Film Profile of Lennart Anderson
In this short video profile, Lennart Anderson talks about his life. He also works on a portrait of fellow artist Kyle Staver.
Read MoreRobert Andrew Parker
A studio Visit with Master Artist and Illustrator Robert Andrew Parker
Back in 2014, after seeing Parker's retrospective at The Century Association in New York, we sought him out in person.
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